1. What is Long, What is Round.

Guess its Name

Children love Uncle Meeku. He plays with them every day. Today he has kept different things in his bag. The game is “Guess its Name”.

A girl is tying a piece of cloth around a man's eyes and he is asking the children around him to guess what he has in his hand, he is saying that he will tell, what it feels like. There are many children around, a girl is holding a bottle in her hand, boy is holding a ball in his hand, a boy is showing a glass to another and boy is sitting with a bag.

Guess what I have in my hand. I will tell you what it feels like.

Uncle Meeku puts his hand in a bag.

The man with his eyes covered with a cloth is sitting with a bag in front of him and few children are sitting in groups of two, the first group is team A, which is singing a song and the second group is Team B, who is listening.

Team A sings a song. Find out with your eyes shut well, touch it with your hands and tell.

Tell us, tell us how it feels.

We guess its name and win the game.

The man with his eyes covered with a cloth is giving a hint about the shape, that it is pointed at one end, flat at the other, but round like a pipe.

Pointed at one end, flat at the other, but round like a pipe. Guess what it is?

Team A says _____ pencil.

Do you also think so?

Now you think of a different answer for Uncle Meeku's question.

Now it is the turn of team A to touch and guess. Everybody sings:

Tell us, tell us how it feels.

We guess its name and win the game.

A child from team A puts his hand in the bag. Others in team A have to guess. Can you help them?

A child with his eyes covered and hand in the bag is giving a hint about a shape that it is round all around, has no corners and can be rolled in hands.

Round all around… has no corners…

I can roll it in my hand. Guess what it is?

The game 'Guess its Name' helps children observe and describe shapes of different objects. Discuss similarities and differences among their properties, physical features etc., such as edges, corners, faces, smooth or rough surfaces, if it rolls or slides. For example, a matchbox has sharp corners and it cannot roll while a plate is flat and can roll.

Then is the turn of team B to feel and guess. And so the game goes on ...

Now you play this game in teams. Put different things in a bag. A cloth is tied on one child's eyes. She puts her hand in the bag. She touches it and says what it feels like. Her team has to guess the name.

How Strong is a Postcard?

A book is kept on one corner of a postcard. A postcard is rectangular in shape and it is thicker than a normal sheet of paper.

Hold a postcard from one corner. If you keep a book on it, can it hold the book?

Now try this.

1. Roll a postcard to make a pipe.

A postcard.

2. Use tape to stick the ends together.

A postcard is rolled to look like a pipe and its ends are pasted with a tape. There are is a tape and a scissors also .

3. Put a book on it. Does the postcard hold it? See how many books it can hold.

Two books are placed on the roll made from postcard.

Teachers note: This activity can be done with any other available card.

Hurry Up! Be Quick!

Children are sitting in a circle in the class.

They are playing this game by clapping and singing.

What is long _____ what is round?

Look around _____ look around

Reena says – A bat is long, a ball is round. Look around, look around.

Some children are sitting in a circle in the class, they are clapping and singing and a girls is saying– A bat is long, a ball is round. Look around, look around.

All children are singing _____

What is long _____ what is round? _____

Look around _____ look around _____

Meenu says – A bottle is long, a cap is round. Look around, look around.

A girl is sitting and saying – A bottle is long, a cap is round. Look around, look around.

And the game goes on.

Now you play this game in your class. Take turns to name two things — one long and one round. Do not repeat things which others have named.

What Rolls, What Slides?

Look at the picture. Some children are rolling and some are sliding things in a park.

A boy is sliding down a slide swing, another boy is sliding down from a pipe. One boy is playing with a ball, one boy is dragging a box with a thread. One girl is lying on the grass.

There are some things which can roll and some which can slide.

There are things which both roll and slide.

Two boys are playing a carrom board.

Start a discussion in the class on things in the child's environment which roll and slide. Help children to look at their shape and see how some things roll and others slide.

Look at things around you.

Write below:

Things which roll	Things which slide	*Things which both roll and slide*
_____	_____	_____
_____	_____	_____
_____	_____	_____

My Tiny Tree

1. Take a sheet of paper like this.

A rectangle shaped sheet of paper.

2. Roll the paper to make a pipe.

The sheet is rolled to make a pipe.

3. Your paper pipe will look like this now. Use glue or tape to stick it.

The paper pipe is pasted using a glue or a tape.

4. Using scissors, cut strips at one end of the paper pipe. Make 7 or 8 cuts.

Seve to eight strips are cut at one end of the paper pipe using scissors.

5. Turn down the cut ends. Your tree is ready! Colour it.

The cut ends are turned down and it looks like a tree. Then it is colored.

The Tallest Tower

Two boys and one girl are making towers with boxes, by putting one box over the other. The girl has made the tallest tower.

First let us make a tower with boxes.

Let us see who can make the tallest tower.

I will make the tallest one.

Collect different things, such as boxes of different kinds, balls, erasers, matchboxes etc.
Make your towers using different things, matchboxes, only tins.

A matchbox, a jar, a tin box and a glass jar.

Now mix and make with different things, like — shoe boxes and tins together, balls and matchboxes together.

Start a discussion in the class about which shapes can be stacked one over another and which cannot be. Encourage children to look for surfaces which are flat or not flat. They can also get an intuitive feeling that shapes with broader bases are more stable and discuss how different things like soaps, tea boxes, tins, etc. are stacked in a shop. Children will enjoy playing games like 'pitthoo ' (seven stones) in which they need to make stable stacks of irregular stones as fast as possible, while the other team runs for the ball.